My dream was to install a few cards here and there and a Video Toaster.

First I did remove the Varta battery and cleaned the motherboard. After that I did install a Video Toaster A4000 version with the A2000 backplate.

My Amiga didnt see the board connected. I thought..... oh well, sometimes on ebay they sell Toasters broken. Or maybe it was my Amiga Video Slot.

So, I got a Toaster 2000 and I put there to try out.......and nothing, it doesnt show up

I have a DCTV too connected on the RGB port to see the AV signal in color. It doesnt show the AV signal either. I will try with my A1200 just to be sure if this DCTV works or not. It was a long time when I played with it.

Any ideas how I can test or find out if my A2500 video slot is busted ? There are two capacitors and maybe they need to be replaced, I dont know.

Is the 2500 a UK machine? Actually, wasn't it UK only? If so, read on, if not ignore :O)

In order to get a UK 2500 to work with the Toaster, you're going to need to do a bit of surgery...

The main part being the the replacement of the oscillator from a PAL to NTSC, this is surface mounted near Fat Agnus and not for the feint of heart!

Secondly a couple of dip switches need to be set; J102 for NTSC boot up (on my 2000 board this would have to be hard soldered) and J200 needs to be set for internal timing, which otherwise gets it's 'tick' from 50hz mains.

Then you should be good to go, I'm going to do this mod too so I'll let you know how I get on at some point! If there are errors here I can only apologise, I'm learning too.

Thanks guys. My A2500 is NTSC and it was a dream 25 years ago to play with a Video Toaster so this is why I am building this new Beast.

Seems this jumper j300 is controlling 50/60 hz and it will affect the video signal (rgb 23 pins and Video Slot).

I will try this in the morning and I will let you know if this was the issue.. fingers crossed.

A10001986..... You dont need the software to verify is the card is recognized. Just holding the buttons of your mouse and checking the options in the boot menu you will see which hardware is connected.

Silverstreak...... let us know. I have a couple friends in Europe (I am in California now) very interested to play with a Video Toaster.

Have you gotten your Vampire to work with the other Toaster software yet? I'm very anxious to find out, as that's the main reason I want an accelerator, and a Vampire is the best accelerator going now.